William Bryson (other)
William Bryson may refer to: * William Bryson (minister) (1730–1815), Irish Presbyterian minister. * William Bryson (civil engineer) (1823–1903), Scottish civil engineer, surveyor and architect * William Bryson (electrical engineer) (1855–1906), Scottish electrical and marine engineer * William Curtis Bryson (born 1945), American judge * Bill Bryson (politician) (1898–1973), Australian Labor Party politician * Bill Bryson (born 1951), UK-based American author * Bill Bryson Sr. (1915–1986), American journalist {{hndis, Bryson, William ...
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William Bryson (minister)
William Bryson (1730 – 6 May 1815) was an Irish Presbyterian minister. Biography Bryson was said to have come of a Donegal family, became minister of the nonsubscribing congregation at Antrim in August 1764. Without the pulpit reputation of his cousin James Bryson, James, he was a man of more influence in matters theological. He adopted Arian Christology and rejected the tenets of original sin and imputed righteousness. The ground he took was that of a strong scripturalist, and he upheld sabbath observance, eternal punishments, and Satanic agency. Bryson, though a member of the outcast Antrim presbytery, was, as his manuscripts show, a frequent preacher in neighbouring congregations of the general synod. His first publication was a funeral discourse for a distinguished minister of the synod. At the time of the rebellion in 1798 Bryson was a staunch loyalist, in this, as in other matters, following the lead of his co-presbyter, Bruce of Belfast. In September 1809 his age and infi ...
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